The Press: The Watergate Three

When the Pulitzer Prizes are announced next week, the citation for
public service by a newspaperbarring a last-minute reversalwill go
to the Washington Post for its continuous digging into the Watergate
case and related campaign scandals. Certainly the Post deserves credit
for its tenacity But the trade knows that personal honors belong to an
unlikely trio of relatively junior newsmen, the Post's District of
Columbia editor, Barry Sussman, 38, and Reporters Carl Bernstein, 29,
and Bob Woodward, 30. None of the three was accustomed to covering
stories of national significance, all felt the...